ABSTRACT
In this study I have sought to explore the political implications of literary discourses about space. To do this, I have examined works of Lawrence and Woolf as exemplary texts that simultaneously reflect, reverse, and disrupt dominant spatial discourses and practices. As I have discussed, despite the numerous differences in their temperament, background, and relationship with modernist experimentalism, both Lawrence and Woolf developed a keen sense of the constructedness and changeability of self, space, and social relations through their experience of an era that saw epistemological, physical, and psychological changes in spatio-temporal perspectives and experiences. More importantly, their marginality, due to class and gender respectively, often drove them to question the ideological implications embedded in the contemporary symbolic, physical, and discursive spatial topoi of the oppressive socio-spatial order, and to seek a more liberating and inclusive human geography.
